This startling collection of five erotic stories are from seventeenth-century Ming dynasty China, a period char-acterized by increasing industrialization and urbanization, which led to a more material society, and to a desire in the population to pursue luxury and pleasure.
Ling Mengchu’s stories are pre-occupied with sexuality and include a host of characters, including bold, aggressive, cunning, and seductive men, and highly passionate, sensual, and sexually insatiable women. The publication ofIn the Inner Quarters, for the first time ever in English, gives new life to the sensual pleasures of that era.
Dr. Lenny Hu(Translator) has -translated Philip Roth’sGoodbye, Columbusand numerous other literary works. He was born in China and has taught at universities both in China and Canada.
• includes an extensive and detailed Introduction, describing the era in which Ling lived and wrote, and comprehensive bibliography and glossary of terms, in Chinese and English Five stories from Ling's two collections Introduction looks at the
A collection of five erotic stories from Ming dynasty China, in English for the first time.
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